Corn? Verbruggen wrote: > On 1/10/07, *Clayborne Arevalo* <clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com > <mailto:clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 1/10/07, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de > <mailto:pkk at spth.de>> wrote: > > Clayborne Arevalo wrote: > > > I'm looking for a pdf manipulation tool that runs on Unix or > GnuOS and > > > does what psutils does. In particular I'm looking for the > abilities to > > > select (psselect), sort in signature order (psbook) and impose the > > > pages on a large sheet of paper (psnup). Is there such a program? > > > > > > Preferably the program should be command-line or have > command-line > > > capabilities (so it can be scripted). I've looked into pdftk > and it > > > seems to be missing the key ability to impose multiple pages on a > > > single sheet. > > > > pdfjam? It contains pdfnup. How about pdftk + pdfjam? > > pdfjam appears to be incapable of handling large-sized paper > (e.g. a3). Is there some magic option I need to pass to pdfjam > or my LaTeX installation? > > Hi Clayborne, > > I was wondering wether you ever found a solution to this while I'm > currently trying to get 3 custom-sized pages onto 1 a3 sized paper using > pdfnup. It does not work. A workaround with Scribus could be to use pdftk to break (burst) the PDF into single-page PDFs, then import the single page PDFs into Scribus image frames. A modification of: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Automatic_import_of_images:_Versions_not_requiring_Tkinter could do this in a scripted way.
Greg
